This year’s Wabash County Basketball Tourney had a little bit of a number of positive things. Other than the teams competing at a higher level, the highlight was an individual achievement by a classy youngster, more on that later.

This is the traditional halfway point of the season. Not every team had success, but every program did, in my eyes .... stay with me on this. Only one team from each gender went undefeated and won the title. But each program sparkled in one way or another.

Players from Northfield and Southwood's girls basketball teams battled for a rebound in a game earlier this month between the two schools. The teams will meet in opening round action of the Wabash County Tourney on Friday. Photos by Joseph Slacian

By Bill Barrows

The 2017 Wabash County Basketball Tourney will be at Wabash High School on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 29-30. The pairings for the entire first round of games pits the same schools against each other in both JV and varsity and in both girls and boys for the first time in recent memory.

At 9 a.m. Friday, Northfield faces Southwood in the girls JV tipoff. That will be followed at 10:30 a.m. by the Northfield boys JV taking on Southwood. At noon, Manchester and Wabash girls JV teams will play followed at 1:30 p.m. by the Manchester -Wabash boys JV contest.